
Senior Project Planner – Senior Project Controls Engineer - Transport & Utilities
- Bristol Area
- Permanent
- Full-time
Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.
Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.Job DescriptionThe opportunityWe are looking for a person to join our expanding Transport and Utilities business as a Senior Project Controls Engineer specializing in Project Planning. Day-to-day responsibilities may include:
- Leading the Planning individuals on highly complex, high risk projects or programmes.
- Creation and maintenance of project schedules that assist and align with project requirements on a medium complexity, medium risk project or programme.
- Adherence to NEC or FIDIC contract processes for management of schedule data and submissions.
- Assist project team to develop status reports to keep management informed on project progress.
- Oversight of day-to-day management, staffing and the implementation of integrated Project Controls standards and processes.
- Interacting with the project team to define scope of work to develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan.
- Interacting with and assisting the project managers to schedule work and coordinate assignments.
- Evaluation of project schedule progress and performance and identify developing problem areas.
- Breakdown of the critical path and constraints to understand the effect of changes to schedule and recommend a work-around.
- Assisting project managers to maintain timely and effective change management processes and procedures.
- Conducting analysis to understand alternative courses of action or recovery on slipped schedules.
- Undertaking of project reviews.
- Monitoring and consolidating of overall project plans.
- Monitoring the project managers reporting system summarising the progress status of all projects.
- Monitoring and advise on status of project KPIs.
- Understanding and be able to explain the EVM reported periodically.
- Line managing planning personnel within the T&T team, conducting mentoring and coaching as required.
- Have good verbal and written communication skills.
- Have good research and analytical skills.
- Have experience managing stakeholders.
- Record of strong leadership and line management.
- Excellent presenter who has facilitated training programmes associated with Project Planning
- Having attended formal training in Primavera P6 & Tilos Time location software is essential.
- Demonstratable practical experience in Project Management and Planning techniques is essential.
- Experience of working in the transportation and utilities sectors is desirable.
- An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Risk, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Planning is desirable.
- Familiarity with NEC contracts is desirable.
- Demonstratable experience of Cemar Contract Management tool or equivalent.
- The ability to travel to client sites across the Southwest as required is essential.